Andre and I had an awesome weekend. Saturday we went out to the Indian Mounds for our usual walk and on the way I remembered that there are gazillions of muscadine vines out there. It just so happened that we had a grocery bag in the truck so I stuck it in my pocket just in case and boy am I glad that I did. While we meandered down the wooded path we came across thousands of muscadines. We spent several hours picking them off the ground (you couldn't reach the vines as they were in the very top of the trees). It was raining and we probably made quite a picture holding umbrellas and duck walking around on the ground :-) The wind was blowing quite hard (remnants of Fay) so the muscadine were literally falling on our heads. After tiring of this we went to a favorite bird watching spot and sat on a bench at the edge of the swamp and bird watched. What was completely suprising and amazing were the butterflies. Every size and color imaginable. Beautiful neon yellows, monarchs, white butterflies, a black and gray swallowtail looking butterfly. Andre asked me about the color of one particular butterfly and I described it as yellow-orange. I guess hurricane Fay blew them all to Macon. We saw Great Egrets, Ibis', lots of bluebirds, Turkey Vultures and an yellow and olive colored bird that I only caught a glimpse of. We saw our usual beavers, turtles and deer. After a couple of more hours it was time to return home. Sunday, we left early and went to our old house on Forest Ave. and picked pears (the resident is doing a lease purchase from us and a stipulation is that we still get to pick pears). We got four large grocery bags full. The pears are absolutely huge this year. I guess all the rain has been good for them. After returning home we decided to go and pick more muscadines. We just couldn't resist. After all its free for the taking. 
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